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Co-designing autonomous robotic agents involves simultaneously optimizing the controller and physical design of the agent. Its inherent bi-level optimization formulation necessitates an outer loop design optimization driven by an inner loop…

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When academic researchers develop and validate autonomous driving algorithms, there is a challenge in balancing high-performance capabilities with the cost and complexity of the vehicle platform. Much of today's research on autonomous…

Autonomous scientific research, capable of independently conducting complex experiments and serving non-specialists, represents a long-held aspiration. Achieving it requires a fundamental paradigm shift driven by artificial intelligence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mingyu Wu , Zhaoguo Wang , Jiabin Wang , Zhiyuan Dong , Jingkai Yang , Qingting Li , Tianyu Huang , Lei Zhao , Mingqiang Li , Fei Wang , Chunhai Fan , Haibo Chen

We formalize the problem of contextual optimization through the lens of Bayesian experimental design and propose CO-BED -- a general, model-agnostic framework for designing contextual experiments using information-theoretic principles.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-20 Desi R. Ivanova , Joel Jennings , Tom Rainforth , Cheng Zhang , Adam Foster

We present IOHexperimenter, the experimentation module of the IOHprofiler project, which aims at providing an easy-to-use and highly customizable toolbox for benchmarking iterative optimization heuristics such as local search, evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jacob de Nobel , Furong Ye , Diederick Vermetten , Hao Wang , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck

Controller tuning and parameter optimization are crucial in system design to improve closed-loop system performance. Bayesian optimization has been established as an efficient model-free controller tuning and adaptation method. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Christopher König , Raamadaas Krishnadas , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan

Discovering novel materials with desired properties is essential for driving innovation. Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing have promised transformative advances in this area through real-time data integration and automated production…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Avijit Saha Asru , Hamed Khosravi , Imtiaz Ahmed , Abdullahil Azeem

Optimal design is a critical yet challenging task within many applications. This challenge arises from the need for extensive trial and error, often done through simulations or running field experiments. Fortunately, sequential optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xubo Yue , Raed Al Kontar , Albert S. Berahas , Yang Liu , Blake N. Johnson

Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design (BOED) is a powerful tool to reduce the cost of running a sequence of experiments. When based on the Expected Information Gain (EIG), design optimization corresponds to the maximization of some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Jacopo Iollo , Christophe Heinkelé , Pierre Alliez , Florence Forbes

We consider optimal experimental design (OED) problems in selecting the most informative observation sensors to estimate model parameters in a Bayesian framework. Such problems are computationally prohibitive when the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jinwoo Go , Peng Chen

Over the last three decades, a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for solving multiobjective optimization problems. However, there lacks an up-to-date and comprehensive software platform for researchers to properly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Ye Tian , Ran Cheng , Xingyi Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Automatic underwater vehicle hull Design optimization is a complex engineering process for generating a UUV hull with optimized properties on a given requirement. First, it involves the integration of involved computationally complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Harsh Vardhan , Peter Volgyesi , Will Hedgecock , Janos Sztipanovits

Machine learning models work better when curated features are provided to them. Feature engineering methods have been usually used as a preprocessing step to obtain or build a proper feature set. In late years, autoencoders (a specific type…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Francisco Charte , Antonio J. Rivera , Francisco Martínez , María J. del Jesus

Experimental (design) optimization is a key driver in designing and discovering new products and processes. Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective tool for optimizing expensive and black-box experimental design processes. While Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Arun Kumar A , Alistair Shilton , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Stewart Greenhill , Svetha Venkatesh

OODIDA (On-board/Off-board Distributed Data Analytics) is a platform for distributed real-time analytics, targeting fleets of reference vehicles in the automotive industry. Its users are data analysts. The bulk of the data analytics tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Gregor Ulm , Simon Smith , Adrian Nilsson , Emil Gustavsson , Mats Jirstrand

Hyperparameter optimisation is a crucial process in searching the optimal machine learning model. The efficiency of finding the optimal hyperparameter settings has been a big concern in recent researches since the optimisation process could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuxi Huan , Fan Wu , Michail Basios , Leslie Kanthan , Lingbo Li , Baowen Xu

Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging approach that leverages machine learning to develop optimization methods, aiming at reducing the laborious iterations of hand engineering. It automates the design of an optimization method based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Wuyang Chen , Howard Heaton , Jialin Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

Data collected from arrays of sensors are essential for informed decision-making in various systems. However, the presence of anomalies can compromise the accuracy and reliability of insights drawn from the collected data or information…

Applications · Statistics 2024-03-19 Katie Buchhorn , Kerrie Mengersen , Edgar Santos-Fernandez , James McGree

Optimal experimental design (OED) concerns itself with identifying ideal methods of data collection, e.g.~via sensor placement. The \emph{greedy algorithm}, that is, placing one sensor at a time, in an iteratively optimal manner, stands as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Christian Aarset

Despite advancements in MLOps and AutoML, ML development still remains challenging for data scientists. First, there is poor support for and limited control over optimizing and evolving ML models. Second, there is lack of efficient…